Mencius at Zoucheng: The Second Sage, Kept in His Own City
The Meng temple at Zoucheng keeps the successor's cult in its own town, with a hall rebuilt in 1673, a well kerbed in 1831, and stone pillars still carrying a line of Mao's poetry.
Mencius Temple, Zoucheng
Mencius' temple stands at Zoucheng, a county-level city of Jining, and not at Qufu: the two towns keep the two sages apart even as they pair them. Known as the Temple of the Second Sage, it is the hall where Mencius is sacrificed to, and with the Meng mansion and the Meng cemetery in the same city it makes the Three Meng. It was listed among the third batch of national key cultural relic protection units in 1988. Its scale followed Mencius' standing inside the Confucian order, formally recognised by the court of the Northern Song in 1115. The buildings that stand today are Qing, of the Kangxi reign, and the temple was restored again after 1980.